19 Nov NTSB Calls Uber’s Fatal Crash a Lesson for All Automated Vehicle Testing A 2018 fatal pedestrian crash involving an Uber Technologies Inc. automated vehicle in Arizona indicates that the challenges of self-driving vehicle operations have not yet been solved, and underscores a lack of sufficient federal and state oversight of developmental automated vehicle testing, investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board said at a Nov. 19 hearing in Washington. Read more...
19 Nov Perspective: Blockchain Useful in the Food Supply Chain Blockchain technology is capable of providing end-to-end transparency about where food originated and traveled, which can help reduce the risk of foodborne illness and the cost of produce contamination. Read more...
19 Nov Logistics Firm Mode Reaches Agreement in $2.3 Billion Merger With SunteckTTS Dallas-based Mode Transportation and SunteckTTS Inc. have reached an agreement to merge the two transportation and logistics companies under the Mode branding, generating more than $2 billion in annual revenue, according to a release. Read more...
19 Nov NTSB Slams Uber Self-Driving Car Unit’s Safety Culture Uber Technologies Inc.’s self-driving vehicle unit lacked an effective safety culture at the time when one of its test vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., in 2018, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said Nov. 19. Read more...
19 Nov Nikola Announces Plans to Make Breakthrough Battery Technology Available to All Nikola Corp. announced it entered into a letter of intent to acquire a world-class battery engineering team to help bring to pre-production a new battery, and called it the first battery that would remove binder material and current collectors, enabling more energy storage within the cell. Read more...
19 Nov Global Shipment Giant DHL Says Worst Is Over for Trade, Brexit The worst may be over for global trade as tensions over Brexit and the U.S.-China relationship show signs of easing, according to John Pearson of DHL Express. Read more...
19 Nov Commodity Shippers Struggle to Obtain 2020-Compliant Fuel Ships are struggling to obtain the fuels they need to test them in time for the start of sweeping environmental legislation that takes effect in six weeks’ time, a situation that could ultimately result in vessels having to temporarily halt trading. Read more...
19 Nov Convoy to Expand Services After $400 Million in New Funding Convoy’s intentions for putting a recent $400 million package of additional investment capital to work are straightforward — keep expanding its digital freight business through more machine learning, more automated loads, and more drop-and-hook arrangements. Read more...
19 Nov Yamato Transport Rolls Out Electric Vehicles for Parcel Delivery Near Tokyo Yamato Transport Co. unveiled on Nov. 19 what it says is a greener, compact, driver-friendly electric truck that may offer hope for coping with the acute labor shortage in Japan’s door-to-door parcel delivery industry. Read more...
19 Nov New AAPA CEO Chris Connor Jumps Into US-China Trade Dispute Chris Connor, the new president and CEO of the American Association of Port Authorities, knows his way around shipping after nearly 40 years in the industry, but his challenge now is to learn the perspective of port operators and government agencies regulating the facilities. Read more...